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Uncle Toms Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Toms Cabin. Uncle Toms Cabin taught that slavery was a great moral struggle not just a political contest. This book was written in the North, around the Connecticut area. This book was published in 1852. There was a signature to where Northern abolitionist increasted their protests against the Fugitive Slave Act because of this book. Appleby, Joyce Oldham. The American Vision. New York: Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 2007. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Stephan Douglas introduced a bill in Congress which would divid Nebraska and Kansas into two different territories. This act is to repeal the Missouri Compromise and make popular sovereighty for both territories. Nebraska would be north, Kansas would be south. The act was introduced on January 23, 1854. What this did was gave Kansas and Nebraska popular sovereighty. Kansas was opened to the Civil War. -
Dred Scott decision
Dred Scott was a slave and lived in a slave state untill his owner moved to a free state. Once they moved back to the slave state, Scott argued that since he lived in a free state than he should become free. The case became known as Dred Scott Vs. Sanford. The court ruled that since Scott wasn't a citizen so therefore he had no right to sue. -
Dred Scott decision
Source "Appomattox Court House, Va." Appomattox Court House, Va. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. http://www.nps.gov/apco/index.htm. Picture Dred Scott. Photograph. Library of Congress. PBS. PBS. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/antebellum/landmark_dred.html. -
Election at 1860
Abraham Lincoln ran as the republican. Stephen Douglas and John G. Breckinridge ran split for democrats. Southern states threatened to seceed from union if a Republican won the presidencey. Lincoln won. He also recieved no votes from the South. -
The Confederate States of America
The confederate states were in the South. On Feb. 4, 1861 the Confederate States of America where formed. The delegates from the secessionist states met in Montgomery, Alabama to make this decsion. This territory's constitution "protected and recognized" slavery. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation to free all slave but the slaves in the border states. Lincoln didn't want to free the border states due to the fact he didn't want them getting into the war and fighting against them. The emancipation proclamation did not fully end slavery but it did however build up the moral of the Union. It gave them a reason to fight, to bring freedom to those who had no rights. -
Emanicapation Proclamation
Source "Emancipation Proclamation." PBS. PBS. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1549.html. Picture Gardner, Alexander. Abraham Lincoln. Photograph. Library of Congress. Abraham Lincoln -. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. http://www.wallpapermaven.com/cat/people/Abraham-Lincoln-2.html. -
The Gettysburg Address
President Abraham Lincoln gave which is probably one of the most famous speeches "The Gettysburg Address" at the battle field in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Lincoln dedicated the land as a Soldier’s National Cemetery to honour the fallen. Source
"Gettysburg Address." Pocantico Hills Central School. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. http://www.pocanticohills.org/civilwar/gettysadd.htm. Picture
Abraham Lincoln. Photograph. Library of Congress. President Abraham Lincoln. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. <http://pdxretro. -
13th Amendment
Lincoln was the one to introduce the 13th Amendment. He did this to abolish slavery. This Amendment was introduced January 1865. 27 states including 8 from the south had ratifed the 13th Amendment. This was one of the three "Civil War Amendments" -
Freedman’s Bureau
The Freedman’s Bureau was established by Congress. This assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing clothing and food. This was done March 3, 1865 or the last month of war. This Bureau established primary schools. -
Appomattox Court House
Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant met in the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Lee and his army surrender to Grant after the meeting lasted about an hour and a half. Source and picture are the same "Appomattox Court House, Va." Appomattox Court House, Va. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. http://www.nps.gov/apco/index.htm. -
Appomattox Courthouse
Lee and Grant met to arrange a confederate surrender. This surrender was made April 9, 1865. In the Virginia village called Appomattox Courthouse, is where they met. People knew the war would end soon. Many buildings and people were destroyed. -
Lincolns Assassination
John Wilkes Booth is the 26 year old assassin of Abraham Lincoln. On April 14, 1865 Booth shot Lincoln. Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington. President Lincoln had surrendered five days later to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. Booth was killed shortly after. -
14th amendment ratified
The 14th amendment granted citizenship to everyone born or naturalized to the United States. It also says states can't deny any person life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law. States also can't deny any person within it's jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. This amendment allows a greater protection of civil rights to all Americans. -
14th amendment ratified
Source and picture are the same. "Primary Documents in American History." 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress). Web. 23 Feb. 2012. http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/14thamendment.html. -
15th amendement
The 15th amendement allows afriacn american men the right to vote. It says all men are allowed to vote. Southern states were not a fan of this amendement. To try and prevent african americans from voting they used poll taxes, literacy tests and other things to make it difficult.
